Since Visual FoxPro 9.0 SP2 was released in late 2007, we have released three hotfixes. The third, latest of these hotfixes was published recently. All three hotfixes are now available for download on MSDN CodeGallery . It is no longer necessary to contact...

The October letter from the editor ( http://msdn.com/vfoxpro/letters ) is now live. This announces the October CTP of Sedna and SP2 for Visual FoxPro. The CTP previews several enhancements: Enhancements to Reporting, SQL Server Upsizing Wizard and...

Today we released the June 2006 CTP of VFP “Sedna”. It is available for download here . I’ve also published the monthly letter: http://msdn.com/vfoxpro/letters that contains information about this CTP.

As many of you know, after a major release, people at Microsoft tend to look around to see what they’d like to work on next. After working on two releases of Visual Studio and a similar number of releases of Visual FoxPro, I’ve accepted a position in...

Today I published the April 2006 letter for Visual FoxPro . Incidentally, in that letter I mentioned that the Team System team is about to release a MSCCI provider for Team Foundation Server which includes support for Visual FoxPro 9.0. Then this afternoon...

ttp://www.ozfoxrocks.com/Default.aspx?tabid=57 In this podcast Craig and Scott discuss design and testing, and a chat with Craig Boyd about Vista and Visual FoxPro 'Sedna'. In the introduction they talk about Ken Levy, his great work with FoxPro...

We have released the first CTP (Community Technology Preview) of Sedna. This March 2006 CTP includes the latest build of NET4COM — a library of COM wrappers around a selected subset of the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. We will release other CTPs periodically...

As I've mentioned, we're always looking at ways to connect Visual FoxPro and Visual Studio . More and more of our VFP customers are also using .NET for various purposes. At PDC, John Miller (jMM) asked me if we'd be hooking up VFP and Team Foundation...

One thing that we've been working towards for a while is getting the community involved earlier in our development processes. This is something that's happening across the developer division . We're pleased to let y'all know that we've posted overview...

Had to borrow the title from Andrew . Ken Levy, our VFP Product Manager is moving on to a Product Planning position in Windows Live . It's been awesome working with him these past few years. For those who don't know, Ken used to work with me at my own...

Just wanted to provide some quick pointers to two new VFP resources: A Win32 API viewer for VFP developers. You can access it via the web or download and register an offline version (in a VFP database) that can be updated whenever the API is added...

As Ken notes , Visual FoxPro has now been added to the MSDN Product Feedback site . While we will obviously continue to look at enhancement requests and bug notices from the usual community sites like the UT , Wiki , etc., this has the advantage of going...

The VFP SP1 Beta download page has an updated list of bugs fixed in this service pack. Based on user feedback from online forums we have refreshed the content, including formating and better organization of the bugs by feature categories. Also, the...

I got an email today that an old friend and a long time VFP MVP, Drew Speedie and his son Brent died on Friday while hiking in Yellowstone Pa rk . Drew and I spent many years speaking at the same conferences all around the world – and he was one of the...

Well, the hints have been going out for a while now, and finally we can talk about this thing we've been working on for so long. At the PDC opening keynote today, we unveiled a number of things including Project LINQ. The Language Integrated Query framework...

I've been meaning to blog this for almost a week now, but I've just been crazily busy getting ready for PDC and working on reviews (yup, it's that time of the year). In June, David Stevenson interviewed Ken Levy and myself at the Visual FoxPro Devcon...

Ken blogs about two new VFP9 case studies that have just gone live. I just wanted to point to his more detailed post and provide the highlights of the two case studies. I'm really excited to see some of these case studies coming out and look forward to...

I've mentioned before that one of the reasons I enjoy my job so much is that I get to work with folks like Anders, Paul , Erik and Calvin on future technology. Basically, my goal is to make working with data in real applications (not just demos) something...

(UPDATED) ... Whoops, wrong alias name used in the USE IN command. Repaired now <g> So Richard Stanton, part of the VFP Dev team and the author of all the great VFP Report enhancements in VFP 9, and I were going over a very cool algorithm. I...

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One of the cool things about Visual FoxPro is its community. I just wanted to congratulate two community sites for hitting great milestones: PortalFox just hit its 20,000th user The Universal Thread hit its one millionth message It's great...

As you are probably aware, Microsoft is constantly improving Windows, Office, SQL Server, and other products with Service Packs and whole new versions. Several months ago, I posted about the effects of (or lack thereof) Windows XP SP2 on Visual FoxPro...

Rob Copeland, Product Unit Manager for RAD Tools (that's VB, .NET Client aka Winforms and VS Data) has joined the blogosphere . In his first post, he discusses the VB6 support policy and where he'd like to go with his blog. Please go and make him feel...

Sometimes I feel like I'm repeating what others have already written about .Net from the VFP perspective. To those authors who have written extensively on the subject, notably Kevin McNeish, Cathi Gero, and Les Pinter, I apologize for any overlap. Hint...

This is very cool. It's a database of stuff about climbing the Himalayas. http://www.everestnews.com/stories2005/hawley02022005.htm Thanks for Steven Black's Wiki for mentioning this.